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The MTSC held its annual meeting at the IRIS Network on June 2, 2011. Highlights include announcing this year's Safety Champion award winners who are (photos and full write-ups are at the 'Full Story' link below): 

• Officer Rocco Navarro, South Portland Police Department 
• Dr. Daniel Onion, Family Medical Institute
• Catherine Curtis, Maine Motor Transport Association
• Chief Douglas Bracy, York Police Department
• Patrick Moody, AAA Northern New England

Meeting Special Speaker was Dr. Dan Onion regarding Maine's senior drivers and medical issues facing them.

Officers for 2011/2012: Chair - Brian Lawrence, Vice Chair - Katharyn Zwicker , Treasurer - Michelle Ward, Secretary - Ian Hunt.

National Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1949

By KEN THOMAS (AP)

Highway deaths have fallen to levels not seen since the Korean War, helped by more people wearing seat belts, better safety equipment in cars and efforts to curb drunken driving.

The Transportation Department estimated Friday that 32,788 people were killed on U.S. roads in 2010, a decrease of about 3 percent from 2009. It's the fewest number of deaths since 1949 - during the presidency of Harry Truman - when more than 30,000 people were killed. Since 2005, highway deaths have fallen about 25 percent.

AAA’s Digest of Motor Laws :

AAA’s Digest of Motor Laws, a compendium of laws and regulations governing the operation of passenger vehicles in the United States, its territories, and Canada, published by AAA Government Relations and Traffic Safety Advocacy will be available on-line soon. FMI - go to www.aaaexchange.com/Main/

The MTSC has published its second edition, multi-agency compendium of crash and other safety data that defines the major transportation safety issues facing our state today.

161 fatalities on Maine roads recorded, making for ‘relatively’ safe year

1/3/11    By Nok-Noi Ricker  BDN Staff

(Note, originally reported information has been updated with newest data indicated below.)

The state recorded 161 traffic fatalities in 2010, and even though the figure is two more than in 2009, it still is considered one of the lowest on record, Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said Monday.

“That was the third-safest year since 1959,” he said of the 2010 statistics. “It is two more than last year, and six more than ’08.”

By James Hazard and Kathy Zelaya

Orientation and Mobility Specialists, the instructors who train visually impaired individuals to use the white cane, cross streets and ride the busses offer suggestions to motorists regarding how to help the blind pedestrian.

MaineDOT recently released an updated brochure that details the hazards of moose and deer collisions, and ways to avoid them. You can view the crash poster and safety brochure at http://www.maine.gov/mdot/safety/mcd.htm.